Asadollah Lajevardi

Asadollah Lajevardi (1935-22 August 1998) was an Iranian Shia cleric and the warden of the Evin Prison in the capital of Tehran from June 1981 to 1985. He was assassinated by Mujahedin e-Khalq (MeK) in 1998.

Biography
Asadollah Lajevardi was born in 1935 in Tehran, and he studied theology before becoming a bazaar draper. As a Fada'iyan-e Islam and Ayatollah Abol-Ghasem Kashani follower, he was arrested many times, and he planned the assassination of the Iranian Prime Minister, an attack on the Israeli El Al airline, and joined the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MeK) socialist revolutionary organization. However, he was appointed Chief Prosecutor of Tehran in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution and became warden of Evin Prison after the assassination of warden Mohamamd Kachouyi. Lajevardi brought his family to Evin because of the pride that he had in his job, and he became known as "the Butcher of Evin Prison" for his torture and execution of thousands of inmates, with 2,500 prisoners being executed under him (four months under Lajevardi killed more people than the Shah's SAVAK did in four years before the revolution). He was sacked in 1985 due to arguments with other clerics, and he was assassinated along with his bodyguard by an Uzi-wielding MeK member at his tailor shop in Tehran Bazaar on 22 August 1998.